The market demand for film-forming additives continues to grow, and dodecyl alcohol ester is its mainstream product.

Film-forming additives, also known as coalescing aids, refer to substances that can promote the plastic flow and elastic deformation of polymer compounds, improve coalescence performance, and form films in a wide temperature range. Film-forming additives have the advantages of green environmental protection, low volatility, high boiling point, and good miscibility. They are widely used in textiles, architectural coatings, inks, chemicals, environmental protection and other fields. According to different substrates, film-forming additives can usually be divided into alcohol ether esters, alcohols, alcohol ethers and alcohol esters.

Alcohol ester film-forming additives are mainstream products in the market, including cetyl alcohol ester and dodecyl alcohol ester. Dodecyl alcohol ester is widely used in my country, accounting for nearly 70% of the film-forming additive market. Dodecyl alcohol ester can effectively reduce the minimum film-forming temperature of the material. It has the advantages of good hydrolysis stability, good film leveling, and low toxicity. It can be used as a film-forming additive for water-based coatings. In recent years, my country’s dodecyl alcohol ester industry has gradually developed in the direction of standardization, high quality, green and environmental protection, which has brought a broad market space for film-forming additives.

Cetyl alcohol ester is a new type of film-forming additive. Compared with dodecyl alcohol ester, it has more advantages in environmental protection. However, currently, due to factors such as high technical barriers and high production costs, my country’s cetyl alcohol ester market share is low. In the future, as the technological maturity of local enterprises improves, the production cost of cetyl alcohol ester is expected to decrease, and its market size will expand by then.

The field of architectural coatings is the largest demand side for film-forming additives. As the concept of environmental protection continues to deepen, water-based coatings, as green and environmentally friendly coatings, continue to increase their market share. Film-forming additives have excellent performance and can be used in different types of water-based coatings. Benefiting from the improved prosperity of the downstream industry, the market demand for film-forming additives is increasingly strong. According to the “2023-2028 China Film-forming Aids Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center , my country’s demand for film-forming additives will reach 139,000 tons in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%.

There are many film-forming additive manufacturers in my country, and the market competition is fierce. Puyang Hongye High-tech Development Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Runtai New Materials Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Dena Chemical Co., Ltd., Qilu Eastman Fine Chemical Co., Ltd., Jinhua Shuanghong Chemical Co., Ltd., etc. are the main players in my country’s film-forming additive market participants. Runtai Co., Ltd. is my country’s leading alcohol ester film-forming additive company, occupying nearly 30% of the market share. The quality of its 12-carbon alcohol esters has reached the world’s advanced level, and its products are exported to many countries such as India, the United Arab Emirates, and Bangladesh.

Industry analysts said that with the accelerated development of the water-based coating industry, the market demand for film-forming additives is becoming increasingly strong. my country is a major producer of film-forming additives, and its products not only meet the needs of the local market, but are also sold overseas. In the future, as the concept of environmental protection continues to deepen, the market share of green and environmentally friendly film-forming additives will continue to increase and is expected to become the mainstream of the market.